Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Lissard, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lissard
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.41507, -8.32594
- SMR number
- LI041-067----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In reclaimed pasture, immediately W of farm buildings. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. The monument is visible as a raised circular-shaped area defined by a fosse on oblique aerial photograph (ASIAP (317) 36) taken 05-10-2002. Visible as a roughly circular-shaped area (diam. c. 40m) defined by a fosse from SE-W-NW on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 18/11/2018. Faint trace of circular cropmark visible on Google Earth orthophoto dated 14/09/2019.
See attached oblique aerial image (ASIAP (317) 36) and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 5 August 2021
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.